Can see both your viewpoints, but there can seldom be balanced
reportage because the winners get to rewrite history.

Czech-Bohemia (including Moravia 1849-1918) was a kingdom
(10th century-1918) and part of the Österreichisch-ungarische
Monarchie, or in English, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
It was an Austrian Kronland (province)
Both German and Czech languages were used.

Mähren => Maehren => Marin => Moravia.
Mähren was an Austrian Crownland located East of Böhmen (Bohemia).
Its capital was Brünn (Brno).
Mähren had been a separate crownland until 1849 when it became a part
of Böhmen (Bohemia) together with Österreichisch-Schleisen
(Austrian-Silesia).

Many towns in Czechoslovakia had had both a Czech name and a German
name.
After WW 2, the Czechs renamed all the German place names to Czech
names. They liked to give the same name to multiple locations so
as to lose its German identity.
Was searching for a town in the C^eské Bude^jovice (Budweis) area and
I had finally eliminated four incorrect locations.
Found the correct place only to discover that during WW 2 American
bombers had destroyed this German town's records.

And no Magyar or Czech will ever admit to there having been an
early Slovak Kingdom before it was destroyed by an alliance of
Magyars, Czechs and Germans in the 10th c.

> of WWI, when Hungary was BUSTED UP (See the cool map at
> http://parizs.tripod.com/trianon/trianonterkep.html )
> In 1918 Czechoslovakia was formed from what had been called "Upper
> Hungary", so this is where your villages went.
> In 1938 Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and broke it up as follows: